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mar 5, 1953 - Death of Stalin

Description:

-left Khrushchev, Malenkov and Beria each trying to become leader of USSR (Khrushchev emerged as leader by 1955)

-Mao felt he was the senior communist leader (had respected Stalin as senior leader, but after his death Mao had been in power for longer than new leader)

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Date:

mar 5, 1953
Now
~ 73 years ago